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      Williams sisters making it look easy at Australian Open

      January 23, 2010 /

      The Williams sisters are enjoying their time down under. Neither has dropped a set in their six total matches and are likely to meet in the semifinals.

      From ESPN.com:

      Serena Williams moved a step closer to successfully defending her Australian Open title and extracted some family revenge Saturday with a 6-0, 6-3 victory over Carla Suarez Navarro.

      Last year, Suarez Navarro beat Venus Williams in the second round and made it to the quarterfinals.

      The Spaniard didn’t even get close this time, and the Williams sisters remained on course for a semifinal meeting when Venus held off Australia’s Casey Dellacqua 6-1, 7-6 (4), closing with an ace on her third match point.

      Although I would have liked to see the sisters in the final, this will suffice. In fact, a perfect final would have Serena squaring off against Justine Henin, the seven-time Grand Slam champion who’s making her return to tennis after retiring in 2008. Henin has a record of 6-7 against Serena, which is far better than most.


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      Dealer claims McGwire used to get bigger

      January 23, 2010 /

      Curtis Wenzlaff, a former trainer convicted of dealing steroids and who says he supplied Mark McGwire with performance-enhancing drugs in the late 80s, told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” that Big Mac’s goal was to get “bigger, faster, stronger” from taking roids.

      Wenzlaff also delivered the quote of the week when speaking on the subject:

      “Will it help you hit a baseball?” Wenzlaff said. “Let me put it to you this way. If Paris Hilton was to take that array, she could run over Dick Butkus.”

      When asked for his reaction to McGwire’s claim that he only took steroids to stay healthy enough to play, Wenzlaff said: “I chuckled. If excelling and kicking ass on the field is the end result I guess that’s a healthy, good feeling. But for health, there are other things you can take for health that are anabolic, but it wouldn’t be that type of combination.”

      When asked about McGwire’s goal for taking the array of steroids he recommended and provided to McGwire, Wenzlaff said, “As anybody — bigger, faster, stronger.”

      Shocking.

      See, this is my problem with McGwire. He came “clean,” yet he still lied while doing so. He must honestly think that the general public is incredibly stupid and naïve. I would have had more respect for him if he came out and said:

      “I’m ashamed – I took steroids and I want to come clean.”

      “Why did you take steroids, Mr. McGwire?”

      “Because they gave me big muscles and I wanted to hit as many home runs before my career was finished.”

      He’d still be a cheater, but at least people could have respected him more for telling the truth. Now he just looks like a cheater and an idiot for thinking that he could get away with telling everyone he used drugs for health reasons. I’m not suggesting that everyone should buy into what Wenzlaff is saying, but it’s a joke to think that McGwire didn’t use riods to bulk up and smash 550-foot moonshots out of Busch Stadium.

      MLB

      Steroid dealer claims he supplied Vick

      January 23, 2010 /

      A former steroid dealer named David Jacobs (now deceased) has come out and said that he supplied Michael Vick with steroids when Vick was a member of the Falcons.

      From the Dallas Morning News:

      Authorities said Jacobs ran one of the largest doping networks in the country before he was arrested in May 2007.

      The new document, which summarizes Vick’s interview with investigators, surfaced because of open records requests by media outlets.

      Agents told Vick that a DEA informant said that Vick was talking about steroids and human growth hormone with someone at the Falcons party and that Vick was overheard saying he “liked his product.”
      Vick immediately denied to the investigators that the conversation ever happened and said he did not use performance-enhancing drugs.

      Names, other than Vick’s, were redacted from the government summary, so it’s not clear whether the DEA informant referred to was Jacobs.

      But in several interviews with The News that took place in the months before authorities say Jacobs killed himself and his girlfriend in June 2008, Jacobs said that at that 2006 gathering he was with Vick and other players who used his drugs.

      Baseball has long been the focal point for performance-enhancing drugs in sports, but it would be naïve to think that drugs aren’t being used in other sports. After all, steroids first gained national attention thanks to the Olympics decades again. I don’t want to make generalized claims without having hard facts, but again, it would be naïve to think that baseball players are the only ones doping to gain a competitive advantage.

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      NFL

      Are the Packers a legit Super Bowl contender in 2010?

      January 23, 2010 /

      Bruce Smith of PackerChatters thinks so…

      Looking at the basic structure and foundation of the Green Bay Packers and the significant progress they made as a team in ’09, I think the answer in an unequivocal YES!

      As in any off season, there are many questions to be answered and there is much work to be done. How will Ted Thompson handle his own free agent possibilities UFA and RFA? What will Thompson do with the draft? How much player development will happen during the OTA’s, mini-camps and training camp? I could add many more, but that goes with the turf of life in the NFL. There will be many threads and discussion regarding these and other questions as the off season unfolds, but back to the basic structure and foundation – Here are a few areas that I believe are likely to improve the team greatly:

      * Aaron Rodgers will head into just his 3rd season as a starter. In many ways he played great, even beyond what was reasonable to expect, but there is one very fixable problem with his game right now – he holds the ball too long and takes too many sacks. The Packers led the league in taking sacks – this is attributable to many things, injuries, inconsistency in the offensive line, questionable play calling, penalties and bad plays putting them in bad situation… But there was a factor that Aaron has control of and can change. By a conservative count Rodgers was responsible for taking at least 17 sacks that were directly attributable to him holding the ball too long and/or making the wrong read. That number (17) is way too high, and you can trust that it will be a primary focus by the coaching staff and Aaron on reducing that number to 6 or less. No one is suggesting that Aaron should start chucking the ball up for grabs, rather, for him to simply trust his reads more and if it is NOT there take off and use his superior athletic ability to make a play or chuck the ball past the line of scrimmage and out of bounds.

      Smith makes several spot-on observations. It’s a good read for Packer fans.


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      NFL

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